Bleat vs Blear - What's the difference?
bleat | blear |
Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry.
(informal) Of a person, to complain.
(of eyes or vision) dim, unclear from water or rheum.
* Charles Dickens
* 1981 , John Gardner, Freddy's Book , Abacus 1982, p. 74:
Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between bleat and blear
is that bleat is of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry while blear is to make blurred or dim, especially the eyes.As a noun bleat
is the characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.As an adjective blear is
(of eyes or vision) dim, unclear from water or rheum.bleat
English
Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Synonyms
* (sheep's cry ) baa, baaing, bleatingVerb
(en verb)- The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems.
Synonyms
* (1): baa * (2): kvetch (US''), moan, whinge (''British ), whineAnagrams
* * * ----blear
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin.
- The Devil, now disguised as a half-wit peasant to Lars-Goren's left, stood grinning, his blear eyes glittering.
- Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion.